Line #13 Film/PrehistoricWomen


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3	A 1967 Film/HammerHorror film written and directed by Michael Carreras, made to capitalize on the popularity of the previous year's ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' both by reusing the costumes and by casting Creator/MartineBeswick (i.e. the brunette cave woman who wrestles with Creator/RaquelWelch in that film) as the evil Queen Kari. Her performance is one of the few reason this movie is still remembered today.
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5	The plot sees GreatWhiteHunter David Marchant (Michael Latimer) captured by hostile natives in modern day Africa after disturbing the spirits of their temple. He winds up touching the statue of their god (a white rhino) and is sent back in time to where the same god is worshiped by a tribe of pale-skinned brunette women, who keep their men as slaves and have also enslaved another tribe of blondes. Marchant falls for Saria (Edina Ronay), one of the blonde slavegirls. David helps to spark a revolt, which sees Queen Kari dead. Marchant proclaims his love for Saria, but she spurns him, saying that he is not part of her world but assuring him that her love for him will last forever.
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7	Marchant suddenly returns to the present, where the statue of the rhino god is destroyed, thus confirming another prophecy which sees David freed. He is uncertain if he dreamed the whole thing until he realizes that he still has the necklace of Queen Kari that Saria refused to accept as a token of his love. He returns home, still confused, until he is introduced to a young woman named Sarah who is the spitting image of Saria.
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10	!!''Prehistoric Women'' contains examples of:
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12	* AdventurerOutfit: Colonel Hammond is dressed in a classic safari suit and pith helmet.
13	* CensorSuds: When Queen Kari addresses David from her bath, her modesty is preserved by copious foamy bubbles. Exactly where a prehistoric queen got access to bubble bath is a question [[MST3KMantra probably best not thought about too much]].
14	* DarkIsEvil: The brunettes are cruel, wicked people (although the dialogue indicates that they are, to some extent, repaying the treatment they received when they were the slaves of the fairhaired people).
15	* EvilLaugh: Queen Kari
16	* GoodHairEvilHair: The blondes are good. The brunettes are evil.
17	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Saria.
18	* {{Fanservice}}: Absolutely full of it.
19	* FantasticRacism: Blondes are considered inferior by the ruling tribe of brunettes.
20	* FantasyKeepsake: Once back at the camp, David wonders whether it really was a dream or he had really traveled back in time to reunite a lost African tribe and end a million-year-old legend. As he cleans himself, he discovers the white rhino brooch in his pocket, proving some truth in his experience.
21	* FurBikini: The women of the ancient tribe all dress in fur bikinis: the brunettes in dark furred ones and the blondes in light furs.
22	* GiantAnimalWorship: It is not clear if the white rhino the tribe worships is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane actually a god]], or merely a unusually large rhino.
23	* GreatWhiteHunter: David Marchant
24	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Queen Kari kills the slave girl who stands up to her by impaling her on a roasting spit. Queen Kari later meets her fate with the white rhino's horn into her heart.
25	* InstantKnots: The captain of the Amazons who captures David neatly ties his hands together with a single [[WhipOfDominance flick of her whip]].
26	* LadyLand: David is thrown backwards through time to an ancient kingdom ruled by Queen Kari. All of the men have been enslaved, and the brunette women rule over the blondes.
27	* MadeASlave: After David rejects Queen Kari's advances, she has him put in shackles and cast into a cave with the other male slaves until he changes his mind.
28	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is not clear if the white rhino the tribe worships is actually a god, or merely a [[GiantAnimalWorship unusually large rhino]].
29	* MsFanservice: Saria and Queen Kari
30	* NakedFirstImpression: David's first sight of Queen Kari is her emerging naked from the pool where she has been bathing. {{Scenery Censor}}s prevent the audience from getting anything more than ToplessnessFromTheBack.
31	* NubileSavage: Every woman in the movie, practically.
32	* TheOldConvict: When David is MadeASlave, he is chained to an elderly slave who tells David of how it all began.
33	* ProducePelting: After Queen Kari orders the slaves food tipped on to the ground, the rebellious slave girl picks up a cooked chicken and hurls it at her.
34	* ReincarnationRomance: At the end of the movie, David confesses his love for Saria, but she moves away and tells David that her love for him will always remain. She leaves David alone in the rain, along with the statue of the white rhino. As if hypnotized, David moves forward and touches the rhino's horn as lightning strikes. Returned to his own time, David rejoins his NativeGuide and they return to camp. David is surprised at how little time has passed for the guide. Once back at the camp, David wonders whether it really was a dream or he had really traveled back in time to reunite a lost African tribe and end a million-year-old legend. As he cleans himself, he discovers the white rhino's brooch in his pocket, proving some truth in his experience. David is then asked to greet some people from London. To his amazement, one of the guests is the image of Saria. The guest then introduces herself as Sarah.
35	* RhinoRampage: Queen Kari later meets her fate ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice on the horn of the rampaging white rhino.
36	* SceneryCensor: During David's NakedFirstImpression of Queen Kari, strategically placed vegetation prevents the audience from seeing anything more than ToplessnessFromTheBack.
37	* SigilSpam: Both the prehistoric tribe and the modern day one have plastered the symbol of the white rhino all over their territory.

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